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Naomi Campbell won her legal challenge against a five-year ban from being a charity trustee imposed by the Charity Commission in 2024. The First Tier Tribunal ruled that while Fashion for Relief experienced serious financial misconduct, including unauthorized payments to fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich, these issues were concealed from Campbell, who was deceived about them. The tribunal found that Campbell’s role in late filings of accounts did not disqualify her given the extensive deceit she endured.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-01,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In 2024, Naomi Campbell, aged 56, was banned from being a charity trustee in England and Wales for five years after the Charity Commission found serious mismanagement of funds at her charity, Fashion for Relief. The ban stemmed from issues like unauthorized payments to fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich and misuse of funds. This year, Campbell challenged the decision in the First Tier Tribunal, arguing she was unaware of these actions due to being deceived by Hellmich. On Thursday, a three-person tribunal ruled in her favor, finding that serious misconduct resulted from Hellmich’s conduct, not Campbell's. As a result, Hellmich received a nine-year ban, and another trustee, Veronica Chou, got a four-year ban. The ruling clears Campbell to resume charity work related to Fashion for Relief, which was originally established in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.
Written for “Naomi Campbell Wins Charity Case” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 3 other(s) covering the same event.
In 2024, the 56-year-old was disqualified from being a charity trustee for five years after the Charity Commission – which regulates charities in England and Wales – found serious mismanagement of funds at Fashion for Relief, which she founded.
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Earlier this year, Campbell brought a case to the First Tier Tribunal to overturn the ban.
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Campbell → bring → ban
In a judgment on Thursday, the three-person tribunal ruled in the supermodel’s favour, finding she had been “deceived” by fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich.
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she → rule → Hellmich
Judges Joe Neville and James Armstrong-Holmes, sitting with a third member, said: “There was serious misconduct and mismanagement in the administration of the charity she founded, Fashion for Relief.
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she → sit → Relief
“The tribunal has found, however, that its most serious features, including unauthorised payments to Ms Campbell’s co-trustee, Bianka Hellmich, failures in the management of the charity’s finances and the misuse of its funds, resulted from Ms Hellmich’s conduct and were concealed from Ms Campbell.”
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Campbell was one of three of the charity’s trustees to be disqualified as a result of the investigation, with Ms Hellmich disqualified for nine years, and Veronica Chou for four years.
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Hellmich → disqualify → years
The judges continued that Ms Hellmich “used forged documents” and also deceived professional advisers and the Charity Commission.
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Hellmich → continue → advisers
They added: “Ms Campbell was not involved in, and did not know of, that conduct.”
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Campbell → add → conduct
The judges also said that while Campbell shared responsibility for the charity failing to file its accounts on time, this did not mean she was unfit to be a charity trustee in the circumstances of the case “including the sustained deception” she had faced.
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she → say → deception
During a four-day hearing in June, Campbell said her “only mistake” was trusting Ms Hellmich, whom she alleged forged her signature and lied about her credentials as a charity lawyer.
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she → say → lawyer
“I don’t look at it as a failure, I look at it as me trusting someone that I knew, someone that was a lawyer,” Campbell said, telling the central London tribunal that she and the Charity Commission had been deceived.
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